@distel and this comes from someone intimately familiar with the demoralized customer service at the shat-upon, underfunded US Post Office that's been shoved aside by politicians to make room for private delivery firms to eat up the market.

IKEA was anything but forlorn. I feared for my life as I walked through the packed store and was repeatedly both rushed from behind and stalled in front -- just like in the States! the intensity of that experience was in no way informed by Sunday.